Prepare Your Vehicle for Cold Winter Before the Holidays Hit!

The new winter season is just around the corner, as is the peak of the winter busy holidays. Please, don’t wait until you’re up to your knees in holiday tasks and things you'll need to do to give your car a pre-winter check-up! Prepare your vehicle for winter before the crazy holiday season starts.

Checking-up of your vehicle should be a regular action performed throughout the whole year, but maintaining your car is especially important before the summer heat as well as winter cold. The sudden change in temperature and weather conditions can take a taff times on your car consuming conditions. Spending a couple hours checking your car significantly outweighs being stranded in the cold after a breakdown and shelling out extra time and money for expensive repair process.

Be safe on the roads this winter season by preparing your vehicle for winter weather conditions using our basic maintenance and check-up advises:

• Cold weather can reduce a car battery’s life by up to 50%, so check your battery first.
• You definitely will need to check your car’s oil. Get it changed if necessary along with your oil filter. Also, you may need to switch to a different type of oil if you locate somewhere with below freezing degrees.
• Get a set of snow tires if you live in place that gets a lot of snow and icey roads at winter are present.
• Check you windshield whipers, beacause they need to be fresh and soft in cold whether conditions. Oterwise they will do nothing tha a problems with clear vision through your windshield. Also make sure you have enough wiper fluid and consider using a wintertime one.
• Check the engine coolant, brake fluid, and other fluid levels, and if needed refill them properly.
• Keep your gas tank at least half full during the cold times to avoid moisture condensation and freezing.
• Check the heater, defroster, brakes, ignition, emergency flashers, exhaust, radiator, and all interior and exterior lights in your vehicle.
• Prepare and pack up an emergency kit to keep in your vehicle. Include an ice remover, snowbrush (ice scrapper), jumper wires, flashlight, tire chains, warm blanket, robust gloves, extra warm clothes, matches/lighter, drinking water, food snacks, medication and a first aid kit, radio (walky-talky), bag of abrasive material (sand, for example, etc.), shovel and any other items you think you might need in an emergency situation during a winter driving.

Drive save and be prepare for cold winter season!

Sincerely yours,
Anatoliy Rachinskiy, BMP Autoservice CEO.